Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:35:34 -0600 From: Debbie Cardinal <cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> Subject: WHO News #14 Message-id: <6AEED86E1D2743FC84F30B959BF5120A@OCLCA>
Wisconsin Heritage Online News
February 2010, #14
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Featured
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Collections
Project
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Events <file:///T:\templates\WHO\whonews14email.html#events#events> to Note
News of the Day
South Wood County Historical Corporation completes first project
girl riding holstein
Lawrence Oliver, On a Cow, ca. 1948-1952.
In December, the South Wood County Historical Corporation in Wisconsin
Rapids became the first Wisconsin Heritage Online member to complete a
digital project under our training grant from the Nicholas Family
Foundation. 149 photographs by Lawrence Oliver of Vesper, Wisconsin
depicting farm and family life in the 1940s and 50s are now online in a
CONTENTdm collection hosted by the Milwaukee <http://content.mpl.org/swchc>
Public Library.
PastPerfect Users Export Data for Easy Upload
Like many local historical societies in Wisconsin, the South Wood County
Historical Corporation uses PastPerfect Museum Software, a popular content
management system. To streamline their project, we developed some simple
procedures to move existing data out of PastPerfect and onto the web. South
Wood County staff member Lori Brost scanned the Oliver photographs and
cataloged them in PastPerfect following WHO metadata recommendations. Then
she exported the PastPerfect data into an Excel spreadsheet, which WHO
Outreach Specialist Emily Pfotenhauer imported into CONTENTdm along with the
scanned images.
Emily is now working on a similar PastPerfect export process with the
Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums in Milwaukee.
Featured Collections
Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database Uses Pachyderm to Highlight Research
The new digital exhibit "Behind the Brush: The Women of the Pauline Pottery"
explores the stories of the women behind the success of the Pauline Pottery,
an Edgerton, Wisconsin-based art pottery studio. Most of the works featured
come from collections documented in the Wisconsin
<http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/index_wda.php?CISOROOT=/wda>
Decorative Arts Database, including the Kenosha Public Museum, the Milwaukee
Art Museum, the Neville Public Museum of Brown County, the Rock County
Historical Society, the Wisconsin Historical Museum, and the Vesterheim
Norwegian-American Museum. Additional images were provided by Pauline
Pottery authority Ori-Anne Pagel of the Wisconsin Pottery Association
<http://www.wisconsinpottery.org/> .
<http://services.pachyderm.org/pachyderm/presentations/00-4867-29-1200316511
000136-6996126-58-8896-83-110/> Behind the Brush
Credit for much of the writing and research for the exhibit goes to Laura
Houston, an undergraduate in the History Department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison who worked with me this summer on an internship sponsored
by the Chipstone Foundation and the UW's Material Culture Program.
I created the exhibit in part as an experiment in the use of Pachyderm
<http://services.pachyderm.org/pachyderm/presentations/00-4867-29-1200316511
000136-6996126-58-8896-83-110/> , an open-source, web-based multimedia
authoring tool developed by the New Media Consortium. It was a little tricky
to use--there's no WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") interface, so it
took a lot of back-and-forth between the web form and the preview pages to
make sure things were turning out the way I wanted. I'm hoping our Content
Providers will consider experimenting with Pachyderm (WHO members can access
our subscription to the service) as a new way to interpret and present their
digital content.
- Emily Pfotenhauer
Project News
More New Members Sign on with WHO
Wisconsin Heritage Online continues to add new members who plan to make use
of digitization training and support funded by our grant from the Nicholas
Family Foundation. Recent additions to the WHO member rolls include the
Greendale Historical Society, the Langlade County Historical Society
(Antigo), and Outagamie Waupaca Library Services (OWLS) a regional public
library system based in Appleton.
Mineral Point Historical Society
Ice House on Fountain St.
Ice House on Fountain Street, ca. 1880-1897 (GPNC.01.432)
The Mineral Point Historical Society continues to build their digital
collection of early photographs of the community.
Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Lester Allard
Lester Allard, 1919 Brown County Soldiers
The Neville continues to work on the Brown County War History Committee
project, funded by a "Saving Our History" grant. They've added recently
added records and photos for 45 World War I soldiers to their collection,
which is hosted by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
WHO Resources Wiki and Guidelines
PBWorks upgrade and new wiki features
The WHO Resources wiki is hosted by PBWorks <http://pbworks.com/> .
Recently, we upgraded our license. The new version includes some easy-to-use
enhancements, including a chat feature (log on and ask us a question in real
time!) and project workspaces for individual Content Providers. Emily and I
have both spent time reorganizing, cleaning, and learning about the new
features. If you are a WHO member, you should have access to the wiki. Check
it out if you haven't visited lately. There's a lot of new and revised
information available.
Controlled Vocabulary Lists
We've created a number of generic
<https://wilsnet-wiheritage.pbworks.com/Easy-edit+CV+lists> controlled
vocabulary lists to plug into metadata fields. The lists include type and
format information, Wisconsin counties and communities, and a list of
standardized date ranges. These lists will help you maintain quality and
consistency in your data entry as well as eliminate some tedious typing.
Quick Guides
Emily has created three new Quick Guides, shorter versions of the more
extensive Metadata and Digital Imaging Guidelines. A Metadata Quick Guide is
now posted on the Metadata page of the wiki. Scanning and Image Editing
Quick Guides can be found on the Digital Imaging wiki page.
Digitization Standards
In November 2009, the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
issued Digitization
<http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/stillimages/documents/Planning.html>
Activities: Project Planning and Management Outline. This is an overview of
digitization planning and processes.
Project Management
We have used a project management software package called Basecamp for
several years. The new PBWorks upgrade also offers a project management
option, which we have begun to use for our most recent projects. It provides
space to organize to-do lists, set deadlines, and share files.
Events to Note
PastPerfect workshop in Madison March 26
An all-day introduction to PastPerfect, sponsored by the Wisconsin
Historical Society, will take place March 26 at the Pyle Center. The
workshop will also be available as a live webinar. Here's a link to some
info: www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory.
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/>
Wisconsin Oral History Day in Milwaukee March 28-29
Wisconsin Oral History Day 2010 is happening in Milwaukee on March 28 and
29. See www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed/oralhist
<http://www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed/oralhist/> for a complete schedule and
registration form.
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Principal writer and editor, Debbie Cardinal <mailto:cardinal@wils.wisc.edu>
. Contributions from Emily Pfotenhauer.
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Debbie Cardinal
Wisconsin Heritage Online Program Manager
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